Using Fault Analyzer
- Introduction
- Real-time analysis
- The Fault Analyzer ISPF interface
  - Invoking the interface
  - The Fault Entry List display
    - Using views
    - Changing the history file or view displayed
    - Fault entry list column configuration
    - Sorting and matching fault entries
      You can use column attributes to display a subset of fault entries that satisfy a given match criteria, such as a similar job name or the same abend code. You can sort the complete list of fault entries or the subset of entries that matches your criteria in ascending or descending order. Matching and sorting column attributes can help you to find faults with a similar pattern, for example, or to collect entries into a contiguous group so that you can delete a range of entries.
    - Additional ways to match and select faults
    - Applying an action to a particular fault
    - History file properties
      To display attributes and statistics for the currently selected fault history file, first select File > Fault History File Properties from the action bar.
    - New history file allocation
    - Change fault history file settings
      To change a history file's settings from the ISPF interface, ensure that the history file is selected on the Fault Entry List display, or is included in the currently selected View.
    - Resetting history file access information
    - Refreshing fault entry information
    - Fault entry expiration control
  - Action-bar pull-down menus
  - Commands
  - Fault Analyzer preferences
  - BatchOpts
  - Viewing a saved report
  - Adding or removing blank lines
  - Adding or removing help text
  - Setting preferred formatting width
  - Displaying user-selected message or abend code explanations
  - Copying interactive displays to a file
  - Displaying product copyright, license, and version information
  - Deleting history file entries
    A fault entry can be deleted from a history file automatically or explicitly.
  - Locking fault entries
    You can lock a fault entry to prevent it from being deleted from a history file. You can specify the number of days that the fault entry is to remain locked, or specify that the lock never expires (the fault entry is never deleted). You can highlight locked fault entries in the Fault Entry List display. The optional IDIXLOCK exit can control fault entry flag values across an installation.
  - Viewing fault entry information
  - Viewing the fault entry duplicate history
  - Expanding and collapsing duplicate fault entries
  - Copying history file entries
  - Moving history file entries
    Use the M line command in the Fault Entry List display to move a fault entry.
  - Transmitting history file entries
    Use the X line command in the Fault Entry List display to XMIT a fault entry.
  - Packaging fault entries
  - Security considerations
  - Specifying 64-bit addresses
  - Using the interactive IDIS subsystem interface
    The IDIS Subsystem Information option displays the status of the IDIS subsystem.
  - Displaying options currently in effect
  - Recovering user notes
- Performing batch reanalysis
- Performing interactive reanalysis
- Performing CICS system abend dump analysis
- Formatting a CICS auxiliary trace data set
- Performing Java analysis
- The Fault Analyzer report
- Using non-ISPF interfaces to access Fault Analyzer history files

Using views

When it would be useful to concurrently view history file entries from more than a single history file:

A view name can be specified instead of a history file name on the Fault Entry List display.
A view name can be selected via the File menu List Views option. For information about selecting this option in general, refer to Action-bar pull-down menus.

The definition of these views must be set up in the PDS or PDSE data set identified by the IDIVIEWS suboption of the DataSets option in the IDICNF00 parmlib config member.

With views you can:

View fault entries from multiple history files simultaneously.
Provide a specific column layout for the Fault Entry List display (see Specifying a default column layout).
Provide a selection criteria for the initially displayed list of fault entries (see Specifying initial fault entry selection criteria).

For information about how to set up views, see Setting up views.

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